The View Down Here // equivocality

Posted in: Photo/Misc, Random | Tags: house, winter

This is the view out my window on the night of a snowfall. The bedrooms are in the basement, so I get a subterranean look at my miniature lawn with pine tree, although the garden is now buried under 40cm of snow. There are the Moonlights, deprived of their charges from snow covering their solar panels. There’s the A/C that cost me a month and a half salary.

A little box, outlined by fence and porch, of my things.

I sleep with the blinds open in the winter because at night I see more this time of year than in the summer. Snow makes the sky glow an ashen orange, a phenomenon I can’t myself explain. On some nights, it’s too bright to sleep and I have to mask my eyes, peeking out every few minutes to make sure my winter paradise is still out the window until I fall asleep. When I feel especially sentimental, I leave the window open a crack to let in the smell of ice and dry air.

The price of this pleasure is at least three dead in weather related incidents across the province of Ontario.

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#1 Michael

I love the orangy pink glow after a snowfall.

I think it’s little more than a deflection of the towns lights on the bottoms of clouds and snow. It’s been keeping me up here too, as it penetrates even my blinds the past couple of nights.

#2 gomedome

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#3 Jeff

Michael: Sounds like the case for a nice set of leather blinds. I’m considering some myself.

Gomedome: No thanks, I don’t do awards. Especially ones with Google ads on them, you whore.

#4 Jen

Beautiful pic. In Miami, the sky takes on weird, surrealistic glows too. At night, it’s always a midnight shade of purple - the only time it’s truly black is after major hurricanes. . .

#5 gomedome

Jeff

Why don’t you just delete my comment like an adult instead of getting into childish name calling?